runtastic GmbH (“runtastic”) operates an interactive online platform and mobile apps aiming to connect, and create new
opportunities for, people who are, or want to become, sports- and health-conscious.
The online platform is currently at a beta-stage, i.e., certain functions do not work properly at the current time and
there exists a higher probability for errors and problems to occur. Following completion of the beta-stage or a
significant enhancement of the subject of the agreement (see point XII.1. Miscellaneous of these General Terms and
Conditions), subject to the user’s consent, amended general terms and conditions will enter into force.
In order to be able to use the complete spectrum of runtastic’s products and services, a one-time registration shall be
required (see point IV. Registration of these General Terms and Conditions).
Certain content (e.g., information regarding sports, health or nutrition), including general descriptions of runtastic
are for viewing without registration
runtastic’s goal is to make sports enjoyable and to make a positive contribution to people’s health.
Your health is very important to us. ALWAYS consult your doctor about your athletic behavior. Runtastic neither
substitute your doctor, nor is responsible for your behavior. The contents of the runtastic sports portal (it doesn’t
matter if provided by runtastic, partners or users) aren’t a help or an alternative to the information of a doctor or a
pharmacy. With the confirmation of these General Terms and Conditions, you confirm that you are solely responsible for
your state of health.
II. Validity of the General Terms and Conditions
runtastic offers the interactive online platform and mobile appson the basis of these General Terms and Conditions. By
registering, the user consents to the validity of runtastic’s General Terms and Conditions.
Neither the registration nor the use of the complete spectrum of products and services shall be possible without
explicit consent to these General Terms and Conditions.
These General Terms and Conditions shall apply to all points of access ([sub-]domains, mobile access) regarding
runtastic’s offering of products and services. In particular, the runtastic online offering will be accessible via the
following domains:
runtastic.com, runtastic.at, runtastic.de, runtastic.eu, runtastic.co.uk
These General Terms and Conditions shall be valid until cancelled in the currently valid version as of [September 17th.,
2012]. runtastic reserves the right to amend these General Terms and Conditions at any time. Following such amendment,
the continued use of runtastic's offering by any registered user is subject to such user's consent to such amended terms
and conditions. At any time, the then-current version of the General Terms and Conditions is available for viewing on
the runtastic website.
Solely the German version of these General Terms and conditions is binding.
III. Subject of the Agreement
Currently, runtastic essentially offers its users the following applications and information in several languages:
Internet platform (label: runtastic Sportportal)
Personal profile page (label: my profile), including personal details
Sports diary, including a clear overview of sports activities
Statistics, analysis and comparisons concerning your sports activities
Messaging system, in order to exchange personal messages
Events: Here, events added by users and/or runtastic will be presented and administered, respectively
Routes: Here, routes added by users and/or runtastic will be presented and administered, respectively
News: News regarding runtastic will be presented on this page (short form)
Mobile Fitness & Health Apps
Shop: In this category runtastic displays and links to some external shops, which provide sports and fitness
products. runtastic act as agent and not as vendor. Therefore special shop terms and conditions are defined, and
are not part of these General Terms and Conditions.
Content (texts, pictures, videos) regarding sports, health and nutrition will be presented by runtastic and
professional third parties (sports coaches, trainers, ...)
Status messages
Blog: Presentation of company information, products and news in long form
Other content:
About us: Short description of runtastic
Company offerings: Offers of runtastic addressed to companies
Partners: Presentation of partners and supporters of runtastic
Advertising by runtastic and/or third parties
Feedback feature for users
General Terms and Conditions
Mobile applications (label: runtastic Mobile)
runtastic offers applications (Applications) for Apple iPhones as well as, in the future, other smartphones on a
global scale.
These applications can be used both isolated on the smartphone as well as in connection with the runtastic
sports portal.
Subject to the user's consent, relevant data is transmitted from the smartphone to the runtastic sports portal
and shared with other social networks (e.g., Facebook), respectively.
The user hereby confirms its knowledge that as a result of the transmission of data from the smartphone to the
runtastic sports portal, certain costs of the mobile carrier will be incurred that have to be borne by the user.
Limitation: The service is only available to users of smartphones. Only the basic functionality of the
application is available for free. Additional terms and conditions on the part of the mobile phone-providers
apply.
Other services of runtastic
Newsletter: runtastic will send newsletter to registered users. A user allows runtastic with admission to these
terms and conditions to send newsletters. The user can opt-out of receiving a newsletter in every edition. After
opting out the user won't get newsletters from runtastic anymore.
Software and hardware development (provided by runtastic and third parties)
IV. Registration
In order to be able to use the online portal of runtastic, a one-time, free registration is required. runtastic offer
registered users two options:
"Free Membership", where only basic options (features) are available for the users and
a paid "GOLD Membership" with all options (features). Details about the applicable fees for the GOLD Membership
are set forth on http://runtastic.com/memberships. The fees listed under "Benefits" are binding. Payments for
the entire term of GOLD Membership shall be due immediately upon invoicing. Payment can be made using the
available online payment systems. If runtastic is unable to collect any fees from an account designated by the
User due to lack of funds, the User shall bear all costs arising there from, including bank charges related to
any debit entries or similar charges, insofar as the User is responsible for the event that triggers these
costs. runtastic may deliver invoices and payment reminders to the User by email.
Only persons legally capable to enter into agreements on their own behalf shall be permitted to register with runtastic.
Minors may only register with runtastic subject to the explicit consent of their parents or legal guardians. A written
consent shall be sent by email to register@runtastic.com.
By registering, the user confirms its knowledge and the unlimited recognition of the content of these General Terms and
Conditions.
Each user shall register with runtastic only once and confirms with its registration that it has not registered with
runtastic before and has not deleted a previously activated user account.
In principle, two ways of registration exist:
Registration by use of the registration form
Adoption of registration details from the social network Facebook via Facebook Connect
ad 5.1) The registration with runtastic begins with a registration form. The user shall provide the details
requested on such forms (e.g., first name, last name, date of birth) completely and correctly, unless such
details are marked as voluntary. The registration is only possible by use of the civil name (hence no phantasy
names or pseudonyms).
ad 5.2) Registration via Facebook Connet requires the confirmation that the selected details, which the user has
already confirmed on Facebook, shall be adopted by the runtastic network. The user can subsequently add to or
reduce such details in its own profile.
Following successful registration, the user can log in to runtastic by either (i) entering its user name or email
address as well as the chosen password or (ii) causing the log-in via Facebook connect.
If the registration has not been completed (e.g., as a result of missing personal details or the lack of consent to
these General Terms and Conditions), runtastic will delete the (partially) activated user account within a period of
seven days.
runtastic reserves the right to reject users without giving reasons. In this event, any transmitted details will be
deleted promptly.
runtastic is not responsible for the actual identity of the user, since personal identification via the internet is
possible only to a limited extent. Each user shall itself confirm the identity of other users prior to entering into any
form of interaction with such users (e.g., adding as a friend, writing messages). In this connection, the user shall
observe the recommendations regarding the sharing of personal details.
V. Right of cancellation for consumers
If you as a User are registered at runtastic for a purpose that is not related to either your commercial or professional
freelance activity, the following provisions apply to you as a consumer in the sense of § 1 I Nr.2 of the KSchG
(Austrian Consumer Protection Law):
Right of withdrawal from contract:
You may cancel your contractual agreement with runtastic in writing (e.g., by letter, fax or email) within 7
(seven) working days without stating a reason. The seven working day period begins for contracts, that cover the
supply of goods on the date of receipt by the consumer and for contracts for the provision of services with the
date of contract. The contract can be canceled by sending timely notification to:
Consequences of cancellation:
In the event of a valid contract termination, services and fees provided by both parties are to be returned, and
any economic advantages gained (e.g., interest) are to be repaid. If you are not able to return the services
rendered fully or in part, or only in a lesser form, you are obligated to reimburse us for the value lost. This
can mean that you are required to fulfill the contractual payment obligations for the time period until
cancellation. Obligations to reimburse costs must be fulfilled within 30 days. This period begins for you when
you send your contract termination, for us when we receive it.
Additional information
The User's right of cancellation lapses before the end of the right of cancellation period if the contract has been
completely fulfilled to the satisfaction of both parties before the User exercises his or her right of cancellation.
VI. Termination and Cancellation
Each user shall have the right to terminate the use of runtastic's online platform at any time via its account settings
(„My Profile“). Such termination shall be confirmed once.
The GOLD-membership initially only remains valid for the minimum use period purchased by the user. Following that, the
user may voluntarily extend the GOLD-membership through explicit confirmation. Each of the user and runtastic may
terminate the GOLD-membership without any reasons upon 14 days' notice effective at the end of (i) the minimum use
period specified during the registration process or (ii) the respective renewal period. Any termination may be declared
by fax or letter sent to runtastic or by fax, letter or email sent to the respective user, respectively. For purposes of
termination, the user must specify its user name and email address, as registered with runtastic. Following termination
of the GOLD-membership, the user may keep its free membership, subject to the terms and conditions specified herein.
Additionally, runtastic reserves the right to cancel a membership for important reasons (e.g., gross breaches of user
obligations – see point VII. Sanctions and Consequences Upon Breach of User Obligations of these General Terms and
conditions).
As a result of the termination of use or cancellation, all personal details (user account), provided by the user upon
registration, shall be deactivated. Any details made public by the user (e.g., routes, notes on other users' walls) will
be (i) anonymized, i.e., it will be made clear that such details were provided by a deleted user, or (ii) deleted, in
the event of cancellation.
In the event of termination of the use of the runtastic platform, upon request of the user, all saved personal details
shall be irrevocably deleted. The user shall request such deletion by email sent to delete.account@runtastic.com, which
shall include the email address provided to runtastic.
VII. User Obligations and Conduct
The user of the runtastic platform shall be required,
to truthfully provide, and keep current, its registration details (see. point IV Registration of these General
Terms and Conditions), and not to pass on such details to third parties.
to only save, publish, transmit and distribute such content (photos, pictures, text, representations, videos,
...), if the user is authorized to pass on such content, i.e., if the user has the exclusive right to use such
content or, if the user is not the owner of such rights with respect to content provided by it, the user
guarantees to runtastic that all required rights, licenses, permits etc. have been validly obtained. This shall
also apply to content subject to intellectual property rights, such as trade names and trade marks. The user
shall be exclusively responsible for such content.
In particular, it shall not be permitted to save, publish, transmit or distribute any content that is racist,
insulting, discriminating, denunciating, sexual, glorifies violence or is otherwise illegal.
not to send chain letters or messages to more than one recipient at one time (mass emails or spam).
not to carry out any disrupting interferences in the runtastic network by use of technical or electronic aids,
in particular hacking attempts, brute force-attacks, planting of viruses/worms/trojans and other disrupting
attempts regarding runtastic's software or hardware.
not to copy, distribute, transmit or collect by use of technical aids (e.g., crawlers or bots) accessible
details without the consent of the respective owner.
The user of the runtastic platform shall
provide prompt notice via email to abuse@runtastic.com of any detected breaches of the aforementioned
obligations.
diligently care for the personal details and only allow such persons access to its own details that are close to
the user.
regularly save important personal details externally (storage medium, hard drive, clouds). runtastic shall not
be responsible for any lost or impaired details (see point X. Representations and Warranties, Limitation of
Liability of these General Terms and Conditions).
VIII. Sanctions and Consequences Upon Breach of User Obligations
In order to ensure the proper and reliable provision of services, runtastic shall undertake or cause the undertaking of
the following sanctions and consequences upon breach obligations by a user.
The type of sanction shall depend on the purpose, impact and type of the breach in light of runtastic's and the user's
interests. The following sanctions shall be possible:
Warning
Deletion of content
Temporary deactivation of user account
Cancellation (irrevocable deactivation)
In the event a user account shall be cancelled, the respective user shall not be permitted to register again with the
runtastic.
IX. Content Created by Users and Rights to such Content
runtastic permits its registered users to use the offered portfolio of products and services in accordance with
statutory law and these General Terms and Conditions, in order to upload, save, publish, distribute, transmit and share
content with other users.
The user consents that as a result of the automatic evaluation of the way such user uses the platform, it may be exposed
to certain offers and/or marketing messages tailored to such user.
The user consents that marketing measures may also be taken in the proximity of created content, which are marketed by
runtastic.
runtastic shall have the right to save content or disclose such content to third parties, to the extent this is required
by law or reasonably necessary and legally permissible, in order to
comply with statutory law, or court or administrative orders;
ensure compliance with these General Terms and Conditions;
react to claims of breaches of law raised by third parties; or
safeguard the rights, property or personal safety of runtastic, its users and the general public.
The user grants runtastic the irrevocable, free, non-exclusive and unlimited right to use all content generated,
transmitted, saved and published by such user. Accordingly, runtastic shall have the right to use, irrespective of the
type of usage, all content both as part of the runtastic platform and any other activity of runtastic or any company
affiliated with runtastic. This shall include the right to change and edit such content, unless such changes or edits
impair material interests of the user. In this connection, the user waives, to the extent legally permissible, all
intellectual property rights. However, to the extent feasible, in the event that runtastic uses content created by a
user outside the runtastic platform, runtastic shall note that such content was created by the user.
runtastic does not claim ownership of any content created by users and will not supervise such content.
runtastic reserves the right to delete content created by users, such as routes, events or comments without giving
reasons. In this event, the user shall be notified and, in the event of a breach of these General Terms and Conditions,
may be sanctioned accordingly (see point VII. Sanctions and Consequences upon Breach of User Obligations of these
General Terms and Conditions).
runtastic shall not be responsible for inaccurate content created by users (e.g., details regarding routes or events,
...).
X. Privacy Policy
The concept of the runtastic network is based on the publication of details and content accessible via the runtastic
sports portal to other users.
The collection, administration and use of personal details by runtastic complies with applicable data protection
laws in connection with the user's consent to the editing of such personal details. The user decides itself,
which details and content shall be accessible.
Special notice for „Live-Tracking“ Feature: The user hereby also confirms, that through the activation of the
"Live-Tracking" third parties may see the route and data of the actual sports activity in the online sports
portal
www.runtastic.com
. The activation of Live-Tracking is voluntary and is requested before each training session, unless disabled in
the settings by the user. The user accepts the responsibility for activating the “Live-Tracking” feature and is
at his or hers own risk and peril. runtastic accepts no dliability for the resulting problems or threats.
Note: If the user does not want to give Third Parties access to his or her training route and data live tracking
shall not be activated. Privacy settings can be configured accordingly, via Profiles-Setting-Privacy
Privacy Settings: Every user can change the privacy settings for the account. With different settings everybody can
define who can see which information. These types of data/content (1. News feed 2. Profile data 3. Sports activity 4.
Sports statistics 5. Maps to sport-sessions 6. Tracks 7. Events 8. Photos) can be regulated. These different
visibilities are available:
All: Everyone will be able to see this, regardless of whether they have an account or not.
All logged in users: All logged in runtastic users will be able to see this.
Friends of Friends: Only your friends, as well as their friends will be able to see this.
Friends: Only your friends will be able to see this.
None: Nobody will be able to see this.
Personal details shall be saved and used in particular in order to offer new applications to the user, to improve such
applications and conform them to the users' needs.
By registering, the user explicitly agrees that runtastic shall have the right to use all voluntarily provided and
automatically collected details for purposes of runtastic.
The user explicitly consents to the use of non-personal data by advertising networks included in the mobile applications
for the purpose of displaying banner ads (e.g., AdMobs). runtastic does not pass on personal details (name, address,
email address, date of birth) to third parties, except as required by law or with the explicit consent of the user. Any
disclosure of details to third parties shall be subject to the explicit consent of the user, unless such disclosure is
required by law.
runtastic shall implement all reasonable measures to prevent the unauthorized access by third parties to saved details.
Privacy Policy for Usage of Facebook-Plugins (Like-Button, Comments)
Our pages integrate plugins of the social network Facebook, 1601 South California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. You
can recognize Facebook-plugins by the Facebook-Logo or the addition "Facebook Social Plugin" or the "Like-Button"
("Like") on our pages. You can find an overview of Facebook-plugins here:
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
When visiting our pages, the plugin establishes a connection between your browser/smartphone and the Facebook-server.
Thereby Facebook gains information on the fact that you visited our site by your IP-address. If you interact with the
plugins, e. g. you click on the Facebook "Like-Button" or enter a comment, while being logged on to your
Facebook-Account, you link the contents of our pages to your Facebook-profile. Thereby Facebook can correlate your visit
of our site with your user account. We point out that we as provider of the pages do not have any knowledge of the
content of the transmitted data as well as no knowledge of its usage by Facebook. You can find more information on that
issue in the privacy policy of Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
If you do not want to have Facebook correlate your visit on our site with your Facebook-account, please log out from
your Facebook-account.
Cookies
Several areas of our website use 'cookies' - small text files which are placed on your computer and stored by your
browser. They are used by our systems to provide a more user-friendly, effective and secure service. Cookies also enable
our systems to identify your browser and offer services to you. Cookies do not contain any personal information.
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses 'cookies',
text files that are saved on your computer and allow your use of the website to be analyzed. The information about your
visit collected by the cookie (including your IP address) is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved
there. If this website has activated IP anonymisation, Google first abbreviates your IP address within member states of
the European Union or in other signatory states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address will
only be transferred to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there in exceptional cases. Google will use the
information collected on behalf of the website operator to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports about
your activities within this site, and to provide further services for the website operator related to use of the website
and Internet use. Google will under no circumstances associate the IP address transmitted by your browser within the
operations of Google Analytics with other Google data. You can prevent the installation of the cookies by entering the
corresponding settings in your browser software. However, please note that in this case you may not be able to use the
complete range of functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the data related to your use of
the website (including your IP address) generated by the cookies from being recorded by Google and Google's processing
of this data by downloading and installing the browser plugin from the following link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
XI. Representations and Warranties, Limitation of Liability
Representations and Warranties
runtastic does not represent or warrant that the online portable will be available at all times, completely and
free from errors or that the necessary hardware and software work without errors.
runtastic does not represent or warrant that the transmission of data via other systems, in particular the
internet and telecommunication networks, is not tracked, recorded or distorted by third parties
The user uses the runtastic offering exclusively at its own risk. This applies, without limitation, to
the related use of any hardware, including, but not limited to, (i) the respective smartphone (e.g., in
the course of using the feature "measuring pulse", by pressing the photo light for a prolonged period,
the user's finger may heat up), (ii) chest straps, and (iii) smartphone dongles;
downloading of the user's own and third party content;
any use by the user of data created or provided by runtastic, including, but not limited to (i) measured
pulse or altitude details, or (ii) recommendations for actions (e.g., workout plans etc.). The user
explicitly acknowledges that any such data or content may contain errors, and runtastic does not, to the
extent permitted by law, assume any responsibility for the correctness of such data.
The use of any software or hardware offered by runtastic is no substitute for the consultation by the user of a
specialized doctor.
Additionally, runtastic does not make any representations or warranties with respect to external links, banners
or other information and marketing offers that may be placed for the user. Any contractual arrangements entered
into between the user and a third party provider (e.g., via linked websites or banners) result in a contractual
relationship between such user and the third party provider only. runtastic does not make any representations or
warranties with respect to products or services of third party providers.
Liability
runtastic shall be liable as currently provided by law, regardless of the statutory basis of such liability
(precontractual, contractual, tort) only if runtastic has caused a certain damage willfully or with gross
negligence.
In the event of slight negligence, runtastic shall not be liable to other businesses and shall be liable to
consumers only for personal damages runtastic shall not be liable to businesses for follow-on damages
, mere pecuniary losses, lost profits or damages resulting from claims of third parties.
Unless required by statutory law, neither runtastic nor any of its business affiliates shall be liable for
damages resulting from the use of content made accessible through the use of the online platform or other forms
of use of the online portalor mobile apps. This also applies to damages resulting from errors, problems, viruses
or loss of data.
XII. Indemnification by Users
The user indemnifies runtastic for all claims raised by third parties as a result of an infringement of their rights by
the user in connection with content uploaded to the runtastic network by such user or other usage by such user of
applications available via the runtastic network. The user shall bear the costs of any legal proceedings in which
runtastic may be involved in connection with such claims, including all court costs and attorneys fees to the extent
permitted by law, unless the user did not culpably cause such infringement.
In the event that a claim is brought by a third party, the user shall promptly, truthfully and completely make available
to runtastic all information available to such user that may be necessary to verify such claim and defend against it.
Any additional claims for damages that runtastic may be entitled to bring against the user shall not be affected.
XIII. Miscellaneous
Changes to the General Terms and Conditions
Changes to these General Terms and Conditions, other than changes to point III. Subject of the Agreement of
these General Terms and Conditions and II. 4. Validity of the General Terms and Conditions require the consent
of the user. In the event that the user does not consent to the changed General Terms and Conditions, it shall
not be permitted to any further use of the runtastic platform.
Any changes to these General Terms and Conditions must be in writing. No ancillary oral arrangements exist.
In the event that individual provisions of these General Terms and Conditions shall be or become invalid, all
other terms and conditions shall remain in full force and effect.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
These General Terms and Conditions and all contractual relations and litigation between the users and runtastic
shall be subject to Austrian law only, subject only to the conflict of law-provisions of the United Nations
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
Place of delivery and exclusive court of jurisdiction shall be Linz, Austria